Three significant changes of rule are League 1/2 clubs can select any goalkeeper and a minimum of 4 1st team qualified players, invited teams play all matches away from home and regionalised matches are played up until the Quarter-Final round.

Nice to see commonsense being applied to team selection criteria for League 1/2 sides, where senior players are classed as a 1st team player regardless of how many appearances made in the starting xi during the season.

Though if there are a number of Premier League clubs not fielding a team in the Checkatrade Trophy, I would like to see a couple or so Welsh Premier League sides make up the numbers and add give the competition some form of 1st team context.

In Phil Parkinson we trust"You won't get anywhere slouching about half out of bed""They took all our players away, banned our captain and we still came away with a ten-wicket victory"